Re:I just have to say.. (Score 1)

> so it's your chosen package, but without
> even taking a look at mythtv you trump it
> as more mature?

IIRC MythTV got DVB support a little over a year ago,
about the time I got my first DVB card. Support for
full featured cards (cards with decoder) may have
come even later.

vdr on the other hand has had DVB support for
about 4 years.

So a year ago MythTV was very bleeding edge (at
least regarding DVB support), whereas vdr just
worked, and had been working for several years.

> (vdr doesn't have plugins for 'all those
> buzzwords' as you put mpeg4 encoding to be)

The vdrrip plugin which I use uses mencoder.
So it's a breeze to mpeg4 encode recordings.